September 17th, 2016: Las Vegas – Day 3 (videos)

Hi Guys. This Saturday was probably the most important day of the weekend. My schedule for the day was: Main Sporting Event (Layout 1/2) at 8am and Main 5-Stand at 1:20pm. I was really willing to shoot this day really well to keep my chance to have a successful journey in Las Vegas.

I started to shoot the Main Sporting Event on station 6 and managed to shoot really well the first 6 stations. On station 12, I got a bit out of my zone to clarify to a referee some rules (first bird established in case of a no bird on the second bird of a report pair) and missed two quite affordable targets. However, I was able to keep my game up and dropped only 8 other birds throughout the whole layout. I was quite happy with my score (92ex100) even though I have regrets on 3 targets that I dropped because of an obvious lack of focus. The other birds I dropped were pretty tough and I usually missed them in the first pair, because I did not understand or read them well. Congrats to Chris Parsons who shot an amazing 97 on this course. 2nd overall and tied are 3 other shooters with only 94ex100.

After a little reporter break where I video-recorded my buddies for the sake of this video, I headed up to layout 1 of the Main 5-Stand Event. The targets were pretty technical with 20 single birds, 20 report pairs birds and 60 true pairs birds. I manage to shoot 22ex25, missing twice the same far dropping target in true pairs. I was then able to run the second layout (25ex25) and got onto the third layout. A midi target launched from a tower behind the shooters was really fast and tricky and I missed it twice in a row on my first stations. I finished on a 22ex25. On the last layout, I scored 24ex25 to finish on a good 93ex100 that put me temporarily tied Runner-Up. Congrats to Aaron Aslanian who shot an amazing 97ex100 there. It looks good for him so far.

Tomorrow is going to be full of suspense! On the first hand, there will be a great competition within the competition for the Navada State Champion title in the Main Sporting Event. Chris Parsons is up there but there are good shooters behind his back. And on the other hand, Aaron Aslanian posted a great score on the Main 5-Stand Event, but there are still a few shooters who will shoot the event tomorrow… Who will be the Main Events Champions ?

For the time being, I am going to tell you guys good night. It is very likely that I will wake up Monday being a Master Class Shooter:– AA punches before Las Vegas: 7– AA punches gained with the side events in Las Vegas: 8– AA punches I would gain if I finish AA1 or AA2 in the Main Sporting and the Main 5-Stand: 4+4…
It looks like I might then be over the 20 requested punches to join Master Class. Let’s wait and see how it goes.